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WIMDOI: Looking back | Looking forward
Celebrating 20 years of WIMDOI
Conference 2015 Program
Unions NSW at 4-10 Goulburn St, Sydney
SUNDAY MAY 3rd – 11am MAY DAY MARCH SYDNEY TOWN HALL - GEORGE ST
Day One: Monday 4 May
Session
10:00 – 11:00
Session One:
Chair: Lorraine Usher
Welcome and
Introduction
11:00 – 11:45
Session Two : Chair Lorraine
Usher
What is WIMDOI, where did it
come from and why do we
need it?
Aim
Acknowledgement of
Country
Speaker / activity
Speakers:
Aunty Joan Tranter
Welcome & Opening
Address: Key issues facing
women and unions in 2015
and beyond
Conference Participants
Panel:
History and overview. Ask
delegates to tell us who
they are!
Ged Kearney, ACTU President
Panel speakers:
Michelle Ingley-Smith, Patricia Fernandez, Lorraine
Usher, Max Adlam
11.45 – 12.00
Icebreaker
Jennifer O’Donnell – Pirisi
Conference Participants
Facilitator:
Jennifer O’Donnell-Pirisi
12:00 – 12:30
Session Three
Chair: Brynn Williams
Women in current
campaigns
Speakers:
Emma Maiden - Unions NSW State Election
Vanessa Seagrove – AMWU Local Jobs
12:30 – 13:30
LUNCH
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13:30 – 14.30
Session Four
OHS & Workplace Rights
Chair: Jennifer O’DonnellPirisi
Panel presentations
followed by discussion
Panel speakers:
Judy Gray, CFMEU
Bullying: It’s Not On
Safety on the job – tools,
rights and issues
Michelle Burgess, Director of Workers Health
Centre
Ludo McFerran, FDVCH
Family Violence and
workplace rights
14.30 - 15:00
Session Five
Panel -Our stories
Chair: Jennifer O’DonnellPirisi
Women in Male Dominated
occupations share their
experiences on the job
15:00pm -15:30
AFTERNOON TEA
15:30 – 16.15
Session Six
Strategies for women in
MDOI
Chair: Jess Rogers
Panel presentations
followed by discussion
Tools and strategies to
support and protect women
in Male Dominated
Workplaces
The issues of women and
super
Panel Speakers:
Coralie Rollinson – CFMEU
Jessica Walsh – UFU
Mich-Elle Myers MUA
Panel speakers:
Alison Aggarwal,
Director of the Sex and Age Discrimination
Australian Human Rights Commission
Jenny Singleton, PSA
16:15 – 16:30
Speaker: Rita Mallia – CFMEU
Session Seven
C&G NSW President
Women and Superannuation
Chair: Max Adlam
16:30 – 17:00
What Rice Warner have
Speaker: Melissa Fuller – Rice Warner
Session Eight
done to bridge the gap –
Bridging the gap in
also women friendly
Superannuation
practices of the organisation
Chair: Max Adlam
17:30– 18:30 UNIONS NSW - CONFERENCE WELCOME DRINKS & BANNER LAUNCH
Trades Hall Atrium
APHEDA – KATE LEE
Day Two: Tuesday 5 May
Session
9:00 – 9:30
Session Nine
Jobs for Women
Chair: Patricia Fernandez
9:30-10:00
Session Ten
Mentoring
Chair: Mich-Elle Myers
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Aim
Presentation of the Jobs for
Women project and film
Speaker / activity
Speaker:
Robynne Murphy
Mentoring young women in
MDOI
Speaker: Sally Jopes Presentation on the work of
eS4W with short QnA session.
10.00 – 14:00
Session Eleven
Workplace Visits
Participants will visit local
manufacturing and
maritime sites, reviewing
women’s participation and
representation in their
union and at their
workplace.
Worksite visits hosted by Unions to facilitate
discussion with union delegates and activists at a
selection of male dominated worksites.
What are the key workplace
issues for women here?
How does the union
organise around these
issues?
**** IMPORTANT ****
CLOTHING REQUIREMENT
Closed toed flat shoes and
long sleeves if possible
Return to Conference venue
for afternoon sessions
13:00 – 14:00
LUNCH- A packed lunch will be provided for those that attend the worksite visits
14:00 – 15:00
Session Twelve
Workshop
Chair: Patricia Fernandez
Meat industry experience
This session will provide a
number of activities aiming
to give participants skills in
recruitment, overcoming
objections and organising in
workplaces.
15:00 -15:30
AFTERNOON TEA
15:30 – 16:30
Session Thirteen
Workshop
Chair: Brynn Williams
In this session participants
will map their workplace,
identify key issues for
women members.
Facilitator: Patricia Fernandez/ Max Adlam / Jess
Rogers / Jennifer O’Donnell-Pirisi
Activities: Group Discussion, role play
Facilitator: Patricia Fernandez / Max Adlam /Jess
Rogers / Jennifer O’Donnell-Pirisi
Activity: Mapping our workplaces
Report back and discussion
19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Nicks Bar and Grill King Street Wharf Darling Harbour TBC
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Day Three: Wednesday 6 May
Session
9:00 -10:00
Session Fourteen
Chair: Michelle Ingley-Smith
Under the microscope
Aim
To identify how and why
women remain underrepresented in unions.
Speaker / activity
Speaker: Dr Rae Cooper, University of Sydney
Business School presents the outcomes from the
2014 Women in Unions survey.
Discussion: Building Power.
10:00 – 10:30
Session Fifteen
Chair: Mich-Elle Myers
Indigenous Campaigns
Indigenous Campaigns.
Issues for indigenous
women in the workplace
10:30 – 11:00
MORNING TEA
11:00 – 12:00
Session Sixteen
Chair: Kate Minter
Organising Women
In this session participants
will discuss how we can
ensure that women are on
union organising and
bargaining agendas
Speaker: Erin McCoy ACTU
12:00 – 12:30
Session Seventeen
Chair: Emma Maiden
Let’s Destroy the Joint
What is destroy the joint,
and how can you get
involved
Speaker: Jenna Price
Destroy the Joint
12:00 -12:30
Session Eighteen
Chair: Kate Minter
Group Discussion
What are the key issues we
are taking back to our
workplaces
Facilitator: Sam Bond
12:30 -13:30
LUNCH
13:30 – 15.00
Session Nineteen
Chair: Lorraine Usher
Debrief and Close of
Conference
The aim of this session is to
discuss the WIMDOI
conference including what
has worked well and what
could be improved.
15:00 – 16:00
FINALE
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Speaker: Kara Keys ACTU Indigenous Officer
Activity: What are our negotiated industrial
instruments and existing workplace structures
doing to improve the participation of women
members in bargaining?
Activity: Group discussion and plan
Facilitator: Patricia Fernandez
Activity:
Small Groups report back to large group
Open microphone from
Recommendations
participants
Final wrap up. Committee.
16:00
~ CONFERENCE CONCLUDES ~